skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that it's illegal to explicitly coerce your employees to vote a certain way, but perfectly legitimate to implicitly threaten your employees' livelihood based on election results.

Also, he seems a little confused as to whether he's upset as a business owner over taxes and health care, or as a wealthy individual who fears class warfare ("people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled...", etc).

The former might have some legitimacy in terms of hiring costs (though I suspect the numbers are overblown); but the idea that the latter would affect hiring is laughable. Business owners hire people for exactly one reason: that they can make more money from an employee's labor than what they pay out. The idea that a move from a marginal rate of 36% to 39% would mean no longer wanting to make money at all is simply absurd.
Presumably because NSS is the only part of Mozilla actually written in C...
I hope Ballmer issued a memo about "cutting off their air supply," for old time's sake.
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I'm not even convinced that these supremely ignorant "rights holders" really exist, except in scary tales handed down from one generation to the next. I mean, surely they don't think their "protection" is actually working, do they? Have they never been on the internet?

RTMPE was cracked years ago (the handshaking consists of little more than sending an HMAC of a magic string and the player file)[1].

It's all just obfuscation. Putting a transparent layer over the video and obfuscating the file name will achieve the same effect, that is, preventing casual downloads. That's all they've got at the moment, even with Flash "DRM".

1. http://lkcl.net/rtmp/RTMPE.txt
Exactly. If anything this is more lenient than most other mobile browsers
In Rubik's cube competitions I think you solve the cube 10 times, and then the fastest and slowest times are dropped and the remaining 8 are averaged together, and that's how they get those times. It's not perfectly fair, since the starting permutations are different for different contestants, but it does a good job at figuring out who the fastest solvers are.
This is just because html5 doesn't have a way of hiding the video stream from the html source, right?

Hasn't anyone figured out how to proxy it, or only allow a connection to the hosting server if the browser has a specific cookie, or some other way of obfuscating the video's URL?
I suspect that you also believe that you are not being pretentious and pedantic by raising this point. I emphatically disagree. The latter half of the criticism raised in my comment was directed towards your initial comment and comments or explanations like yours that are prevalent in advanced fields. I apologize for not being clear.
Interesting. Looks like a bug unrelated to font smoothing, though: not only is the domain in the command

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

NSGlobalDomain (aliased to "-g" and "-globalDomain" per the man page) rather than AppleFontSmoothing, writes to nonexistent defaults shouldn't fail:

jtm@socrates ~ $ defaults -currentHost find Corbomite
2012-10-10 16:04:05.566 defaults[2569:707] No domain, key, nor value containing 'Corbomite'
jtm@socrates ~ $ defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain CorbomiteDeviceTimeout -int 1
jtm@socrates ~ $ defaults -currentHost find Corbomite
Found 1 keys in domain 'Apple Global Domain': {
CorbomiteDeviceTimeout = 1;
}
I prefer vundle to pathogen, it's really brainless to use.
Yes - the problem really lies with the rights holders here. Because when constrained by the restrictions put in place by content holders you're really faced with two options for mobile DRM video: use Flash (which few devices support, and none well), or use a native app (Netflix, etc). But since it's rather unlikely a DRM solution through the <video> tag is going to be supported by all (any?) browser vendors, the buck really does stop with the rights holders.
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I would emphasize the differences between this and things like unbounce.com, because I couldn't really see what added value is being offered. (I'm sure there is probably, I just couldn't see this beyond the yet another landing page generator)
"Let's say you're moving nearly as fast as the speed of light. Are you flying side by side with light particles? No, because if they were, you would measure their speed as being close to zero relative to you. The theory says you will STILL measure the beams of light as flying away from you at the speed of light relative to you."

Something you said just clicked. I think I may now clearly "grok" relativity for the first time.

It reminded me of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalanobis_distance

which calculates different distances given a vector field w/r to a Euclidian space.

It's not the same thing, but when thinking about what Mahalanobis distances measure, I used a helpful mental model of the measure forcing the vector field apart, enforcing a kind of constant distance between the vectors and then measuring that delta. It seems like a similar concept is at play here, only what we're measuring is different.

I'm aimlessly musing here, but I feel a kind of grokiness I haven't felt before after your post.
Ignoring the SSL bit, from a security standpoint is piping to the shell really any different than saying "run this installer application"? Either way you're allowing the source to run arbitrary commands on your computer.
"I'm not even convinced that these supremely ignorant "rights holders" really exist, except in scary tales handed down from one generation to the next"

I do some work in the mobile space around rights protected video. Trust me, they exist. Particularly if the content you're handling isn't on public release yet.
"The glitch arises from the possibility that the average number of people living in the preposthuman phase might be different in civilizations that produce ancestor simulations than in civilizations that do not."

No, that's not the problem. The simulation argument essentially depends on the fact that a universe that reaches simulation-capability ends up simulating more rational beings than half of the beings that exist in the universe itself. But it's possible that the simulations themselves are so limited that they can only simulate some fraction of the universes' number of rational beings. In fact, that seems likely: it seems that any simulation of this universe which obeys the same laws as this universe must be smaller than this universe. "How much smaller?" is the glitch. The simulated universes have to be sufficiently large (as measured by the number of rational minds they ultimately simulate) to exceed an average of 0.5 simulated minds per real mind in order for the simulation argument to hold.
Beat me to it. Hasn't this change been known since early Win8 information was available publicly?

Here's the MS page linked from the article, since the site is currently unresponsive: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj193557(v=vs.85)...
Did the title for the submission not have enough room, or is there some other reason "Cofounder", which is what the original LifeHacker title reads, got replaced with "founder" here?
Does it actually make any difference? As a pixel size decreases, grid fitting becomes more accurate too.
I agree. I've gone through times in my life where I didn't have a lot of direct responsibilities, and my job was more idea-oriented. And I discovered that not having an agenda or to-do lists was incredibly liberating.

But I've also gone through phases of my life where I would have been completely lost without a to-do list, because there are 12 different things to take care of tomorrow, and 8 the day after, etc., and they're non-negotiable, and my memory just isn't that good.

If you find yourself in a position in life where you can get away with not having to-do lists, that's fantastic, but to present this as blanket "do not under any circumstances" advice is just... idiotic.
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Oops my server went boom (I really need to toughen it up)...

Here is the link to the Developer guidance for websites with content for Adobe Flash Player in Windows 8: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj193557(v=vs.85)...
Learn to Love Your Database [video]
Slides are at: http://love-your-database.herokuapp.com/
Figlet sighting. Standard font, output edited a little. :-)
Codeanyhwere hits 100,000 users, offers discount for premium accounts
Presumably the landlord would be liable for any harm incurred by other tenants under this scenario (especially as they've broken their lease agreement), which provides them with a fairly strong incentive to check up properly. The reputation system is also designed to help them with this.

EDIT: I was actually talking about the subletter (person who signed the original lease) rather than the landlord of the property itself.
No, I'm just a simple developer whose design skills suck so much, that I don't even try to interfere with the designer's affairs (that's why I can sustain good relationships to designers, since they hate interference of customers; at least, as long as I don't try to come up with ideas like testability of designs ;-) just kidding).
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4614676 for previous discussion of a blog post by Jeff on this exact topic.
Ask HN: How do you decide when to move jobs?
I can't decide if I should leave my current job or not. Every couple of weeks I go back and forth trying to come up with what to do.
Thing is, I quite like my job and the people there are friendly, the work is straightforward and generally ok. If I had to list pro's and con's here's what they'd be:

Pros:

Friendly, small team

Starting to get more responsibility & control over my project

Easy & low stress

Cons:

I've been here 6 months and already stopped learning new things at work (no foreseeable change either)

Much lower than average compensation ($95k for 10 years experience, zero equity, bad healthcare & low vacation days)

Ease of job makes me worry about losing my edge

----

The job is based in San Francisco at a "startup" with about 40 staff members and high profits.

So HN, how would you decide?

PS. Sorry about throwaway, I know quite a few people on HN with my main account...
My point was more how as programmers, the emotional toll of everything that we're making will be destroyed, usually in only a few years.

Yes, we're paid. But it's hard to have satisfying work when the result you produce becomes worthless. It would be like spending 12 months carving a beautiful piece of furniture out of wood, get paid $100k for your work, and then handing it to the owner who lights it on fire right in front of you.
How much money can be made from a somewhat successful mobile app?
I'm considering either iOS or android, and either making it nonfree or free (but with ads). Suppose it got around 100,000 downloads and the pay version is priced at a dollar. How much can a developer make in all of the 4 scenarios?

I'm completely unfamiliar with the policies in either market (for example, how big of a chunk apple takes or how ads work). What are other things I need to consider?
Human powered Rube Goldberg machine
Seems like it doesn't work for me on Ubuntu Google Chrome. I get 3 JS errors trying to run the tutorial. Does anyone else have the same problem?
The counter also doesn't need cache; it gets assigned a register.
Cached link since my poor server is dead: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com.nyud.net/2012/10/11/did-microso...
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Yeah. I'm just citing the only reason I've heard, which is that invoking vim just to update a plugin is gross. Which is kinda true - what happens if your vim config is in some bad state and doesn't start properly, your update process breaks unnecessarily (odd coupling to have). Definitely edge case-y, but a tradeoff anyway.
> Flash is the only viable way of streaming with enough protection that keeps rights-holders happy :(

Silverlight seems to work out for Netflix.

> Video on the web would be a lot simpler if DRM/content protection would die die die...

Let's say it did. What web standard (particularly that IE10 implements) makes it relatively easy to implement even non-protected streaming?
Is this still down? Anyone know why?
Metadata Stuffing: Why I Hate tbl_ For Table Names
This has been the basic formula for cameo appearances on SNL for many, many years. It was a little more simplified this time around, though. Typically, a cameo like that happens after an SNL cast member has made their impersonation a recurring bit from week to week. On the cameo night, the cast member will make an especially big ass of themselves in character, and then the real person will come out with a serious look on their face. The cast member will act like they're in big trouble, and it always gets cheap laughs. It's usually very short, like PSY's appearance, and the person doing the cameo typically has one or two lines at most. I've seen some comedians or the musical guest do a full sketch cameo, but that's pretty rare. I agree that it could have been more entertaining. There wasn't much to work from with their usual formula, and they basically went with the "hey kids, see how cool we are?" angle instead of trying to write something with more comedic substance.
Ubuntu Website Adds New ‘Donations’ Page (Humble Bundle Style)
my issue with this specific demo is that the hover effect makes the image too big to select the photos right next to the active one. maybe make it smaller or have the others shift so they're still accessible when one of the thumbnails is still active.
Photos of Nasa chimps who went where no primate had gone before
if the CEO/owner/founder of your company is non-technical he/she will request the data in ways you wouldn't have thought about in advance. That's just reality. That makes Redis not appropriate for most companies. It's also too expensive for side projects. So that leaves technically-led startups. Which is a good chunk of companies (and probably the funnest to work for).
Correct. I don't know if this is still true, but there used to be an effort to keep a greater percentage of trains on time by delaying already late trains further (by prioritizing on time trains over them).

As a railway brat, I miss long distance train travel like crazy.
How can you tell if it is working? I don't see any difference (even after `killall Finder`).
Opera - Introducing Device-Stock-UA: a new request header and proposal
That document clearly states that the desktop version of IE isn't affected.
> Silverlight seems to work out for Netflix.

Silverlight doesn't run on Android or iOS either, so I don't see how it's an improvement over Flash in this regard.
Will Apple or Google be first to map new Target store in SF?
Doing transformations for one off reports is okay. Doing extensive data transformations on data that is loaded millions of times every day is not.
http://blog.rabidgremlin.com.nyud.net/2012/10/11/did-microso...

Instead of a mortal wound from Apple or death by a thousand cuts, it seems like Flash is dying from a series of maiming injuries.

Although DRM is often cited for the main reason Flash still exists, from my experience it exists because it is still being taught at community colleges and universities to graphic design students. They enter the workforce, do something at their new job in Flash like a restaurant menu or whatever, it looks good on a desktop and so Flash persists.
Landlords of desirable properties are aren't incentivized to allow their spaces to be listed on Airbnb at all; the good properties will have naturally low vacancies, because apartments in desirable locations have effective markets already, and those markets provide much better terms to landlords than Airbnb rentals do.

So you're left dealing with an unfortunate subset of landlords.
Lots of people use Redis at a cache, not a primary data store. You can have full querying in your SQL database and fast access to common requests using Redis.

In what way is it too expensive for side projects? It's the easiest data store to compile and run that I've used.
I believe you're correct: OS X doesn't employ hinting at all, whereas Ubuntu does by default. Indeed, if you set hinting to "None" on Ubuntu (this is how my computers are configured), you get very similar results to OS X.

I think it's largely a matter of preference: I prefer anti-aliased letters of the right shape, and find the distorted grid-fitted letterforms of Windows almost unbearably ugly, yet others complain about the "fuzzy" fonts on OS X.

Luckily, I use a system that lets me choose!
I'm sure there are JS-based obfuscation techniques, but Hollywood's approval process is probably highly political. So developing fake HTML5 DRM costs X, but getting it approved may cost zero (if you're Steve Jobs), 10X, 100X, or infinity.
You know, this comment immediately makes me think of this: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-d...

Specifically, "As bad as Ion Storm was internally, there was a dark secret that eventually unraveled. It wasn’t until years later, well after the 1996 E3 demo of Dominion Storm, and after StarCraft launched, that we discovered that the Dominion Storm demo was a fake."

So not having been there, I have to ask: did you have hands on the controls?
That's why is common to replicate to some SQL server for non-real time operation.
News Blogger Claims Ubuntu’s New Shopping Lens Breaks EU Law
>Hasn't this change been known since early Win8 information was available publicly?

Yes.
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A informative conversational read.
Ask HN: What is your go to open source role model project for learning?
Since there is no guarantee that there is a correlation between a popular open source project and a well written one, I wanted to ask: when you want to know how to do things right, how to write code that will be both elegant, fast, readable, with good architecture, and good conventions, where do you go to for learning by example?
disabling plugins in chrome works fine too (which ends up being clicktoflash). But it also makes it needlessly difficult to whitelist sites.
Note: I say "startup" because they're backed by a much larger company and only describe themselves as a startup when it is beneficial to do so
To get a similar font rendering on Windows take a look at: http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/
So, having teams rewrite everything for a different proprietary framework because people "don't like Flash" is somehow a viable alternative?
The structured model will win. It only needs a real high-quality editor. Not a hokey drag-and-drop toy, but a tool that scales to real-world problems and addresses the way code evolves through time.
Are you guys gonna start charging for Jetstrap soon or will it stay free?
Think we completely agree.

It's pretty much demonstrated by the update to the piece -- certain compliers & compiler flags did produce the right optimization, whereas the original author did not.
No. I'm not an accountant, etc.

There's no nexus as long as you aren't co-locating servers that you have purchased yourself. If you're leasing from AWS (or most dedicated server providers) there are no issues.

The US doesn't care what Swedish companies do, unless you establish a physical presence in the US (or does something that forms a nexus, and even then, that varies by state).

You don't want to go anywhere near the US tax system, because it's pretty much the worst tax system in the world. Avoid it at all costs.
"Bugs Ahoy" is a website that lets you filter Bugzilla bugs tagged "[good first bug]" or "[mentor=]" by programming language and feature area:

http://flyinformation.nfshost.com/bugsahoy/?cpp=1
What web standard (particularly that IE10 implements) makes it relatively easy to implement even non-protected streaming?

HTML5 (video tag), H.264, and (coming soon) DASH.
Those are all quite academic titles, aimed at computer science students who may end up writing complex algorithms. The overwhelming majority of programming titles expect no mathematical knowledge beyond basic arithmetic. You've chosen titles which are excellent for a serious student intent on mastering computer science, but they're very hard going if your aspiration is to be a working programmer. I would suggest choosing a project that you'd like to achieve and look for books that help you towards that end - as I said, practically all of them will require no significant mathematical knowledge.
Silverlight doesn't run in IE10 Metro either (Or Windows Phone).

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/internet-explorer-10-metro...
Gnome Tweak Tool still allows you to do this, among many other things. I consider it an essential part of the Gnome 3 desktop.
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LogicBlox (http://logicblox.com/) is using Datalog for real-world enterprise software development. At present, the implementation is far more advanced than any other. See http://www.logicblox.com/technical-reports/LB1201_LeapfrogTr... for example.
I would be interested to see what the results of the crowdfunding are; I'd like it validated that such an MMO would be profitable.
The link itself includes "founder", not "cofounder". Maybe he later updated the title...
Oh they exist believe me... Working with a local broadcaster you run into all sorts of things like:

1) You didn't buy the streaming rights

2) You can only put it on line X days after broadcasting it

3) You can only keep it online for X days

4) All data packets sent to user must be transient, encrypted and not cacheable (that's a fun one to try get right )

5) etc etc etc
Tiny Finder extension to open current folder as Sublime Text project.
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Wikipedia claims they run naked, but one of the linked articles[0] says that they actually wear boots. I was wondering how they prevented frostbite...

[0]: http://antarcticnet.tripod.com/300club.html
For my part, I used Vim for maybe a decade before switching to SublimeText 2 approx. four to six months ago. It was pretty close to impossible for me to get all the plugins and functionality I wanted set up correctly in Vim. Conversely ST2 ships with everything I want and with approximately zero config, so I jumped on it.

I don't have much intention of going back, but it's still useful to have an editor I can run in a terminal, so I installed UVD. We'll see how it goes, but I like the idea of a curated setup where I just drop in my custom crap from my old vimrc and call it good.

That said, I agree with the larger point that it's hard to see whether it will take off. But if it's easy for them to maintain it and they're scratching their own itch, it seems like a net win.
I want to see some photos of these things in their datacenter.
Great, now I'm excited about that "awesome next big thing".
Thanks for suggesting rooter. Did not know that.
You can just compile the code and look at it; yes, the sum gets a register.
I'm sorry, but I got turned off from reading the rest of your comment when I got to "emphatically." Maybe you should change it to "like totally." To accommodate me.
Absolutely.

But it's also a straightforward breach of both regular and business ethics to attempt to use one's position of authority to intimidate one's employees into voting a particular way.

And it's just plain incontinent to issue a letter like that, considering that both Obama and Romney are planning to cut the corporate tax rate. By about the same amount, too.
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Google, Yahoo DNS Diverted After Breach at .ie Domain Registrar